2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

PHYS 101 Explorations in Physics

Students will explore fundamental concepts and practice the scientific method in a workshop setting. The format is activity-based, supplemented with demonstrations and discussion. Students will design and conduct self-directed projects. Topics will include motion, forces, and scientific theories as well as selections from light, sight, rainbows, heat, temperature, cloud formation, buoyancy, pressure, and flight. This course is appropriate for non-science majors. Six hours of integrated lecture/discussion and laboratory per week.

Credits

4

Distribution

Scientific Inquiry-w/Lab, Scientific Inquiry/Lab